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but growing up in the north, in detroit, i lived the dream that dr. king spoke of. i went to integrated schools. i lived in an integrated neighborhood. my friends were both white and black, all through school. it disturbed my mother and it disturbs me that people in the south had problems, they could not live the life that i lived. we dined at lunch counters and took public transportation in contrast to what you heard about rosa parks and others. we rode on the bus -- it was called the dsr then. and we would ride wherever we wanted to go and sit wherever we wanted to sit. coming to the march for us meant supporting the travesties that were happening in the south. and not just my mother and i, obviously. 250,000 people felt the same way. those that could get there. there were many who watched from their tv's at home that felt the same way and just could not get there. we knew and understood that in this country, america, there is a democracy, there is supposed to be freedom, that there was not freedom in the south. and we had to unite and stand together. as a child,
but growing up in the north, in detroit, i lived the dream that dr. king spoke of. i went to integrated schools. i lived in an integrated neighborhood. my friends were both white and black, all through school. it disturbed my mother and it disturbs me that people in the south had problems, they could not live the life that i lived. we dined at lunch counters and took public transportation in contrast to what you heard about rosa parks and others. we rode on the bus -- it was called the dsr...
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we dealt with the attempted christmas day coming aboard an airliner down for detroit. 20 10 air cargo threat as well as other plots that were effectively mitigated. some more international in scope and origin like the christmas they plot was involved a nigerian citizen who purchased his ticket in ghama,. flew from legos to amsterdam and attended to ignite a bomb en route to america. from that attempted attack, we learned that relevant information possessed by u.s. customs and border protection needed to be available overseas at the last point of departure for the united states. we fixed that. we learned that our adversaries were moving to nonmetallic devices. we adapted our screening technology and tactics to counter that. and we learned that a single vulnerability in any part of the aviation system can make everyone connected to it vulnerable. since we don't control security at foreign airports, we have to work even more closely with international partners to raise the overall security of the system. we did that. shortly after the christmas day plot, i launched a worldwide initiative
we dealt with the attempted christmas day coming aboard an airliner down for detroit. 20 10 air cargo threat as well as other plots that were effectively mitigated. some more international in scope and origin like the christmas they plot was involved a nigerian citizen who purchased his ticket in ghama,. flew from legos to amsterdam and attended to ignite a bomb en route to america. from that attempted attack, we learned that relevant information possessed by u.s. customs and border protection...
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>> joy. >> i'm joy from detroit. crazy and exaggerated. should be added to the list of what is happening with voter sup presentation. 5252% of blacks in michigan. [inaudible] they can't vote. they have no right to vote. that voter suppression. when you take away the right to vote, it's not just the voter id. it's terrible. it's taking away early voting is terrible. when anybody on this panel and anywhere else talks about voter suppression, you must know what is happening with the emergency -- it's straight up voter suppression added to the right to work business which is undercutting organized labor. in the state where uaw was founded and have been torn -- it's not just somebody's right to work. it's the right to work for nothing. right to work with no benefits and also tear down the union because they're the ones that help fund the progressive cat. it's an attack on the man in the white house. there's a plan being paid to take over black cities in louisiana doing the same thing in michigan. we will not have the kind of turnout we've had i
>> joy. >> i'm joy from detroit. crazy and exaggerated. should be added to the list of what is happening with voter sup presentation. 5252% of blacks in michigan. [inaudible] they can't vote. they have no right to vote. that voter suppression. when you take away the right to vote, it's not just the voter id. it's terrible. it's taking away early voting is terrible. when anybody on this panel and anywhere else talks about voter suppression, you must know what is happening with the...
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paul kuntzler was born in detroit, michigan, in 1941 and raised at grosse pointe there before moving to washington, d.c. in 1951, he was active with the michigan young democrats and the congress on racial he called it. he credits john f. kinney as a major influence on his political consciousness. iin december 19 city with a move to washington, d.c. just days before his 20th birthday. he attended both the northern virginia center of the university of virginia and george mason university. for 32 years he was on the senior staff of the national science speakers association as assistant executive director for advertising exhibits an exhibitor workshops. in 1962, he was elected to the board of directors of the society of washington, the districts first gay-rights group. on april 17, 1965, he was one of 10 people in the world's first gay-rights picket in front of the white house. he is also one of the founders of the gay and lesbian activists alliance. he has an incredible memory are displayed by his tendency to recall events not just by the day but down to the days of the week. [laughter]
paul kuntzler was born in detroit, michigan, in 1941 and raised at grosse pointe there before moving to washington, d.c. in 1951, he was active with the michigan young democrats and the congress on racial he called it. he credits john f. kinney as a major influence on his political consciousness. iin december 19 city with a move to washington, d.c. just days before his 20th birthday. he attended both the northern virginia center of the university of virginia and george mason university. for 32...
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we've got to say, you cannot rob the people of detroit of the pension. they worked hard for these pensions. and let me tell you something, if we stand by what they take the detroit pension they will be taking our pensions. so don't think it will happen to us. if they can set a precedent, they will do it to us again. let me just tell you this. inequality is a scourge on our society. and yes, we're talking about low-wage workers making $7.25 an hour. we've got to do something about it. but there's the other side of that, the other side of that is that some people are doing pretty good. so between 1979-2007, a period, although less than 20 years, real income rose by 240% for those at the top 1%. it's a shameful thing. it is a moral issue. and we've got to fight back at this. let me tell you, our economy is capable of producing enough good paying jobs for everyone. [applause] our economy could do it. this economy can do it. but we can't do it while we're getting trade deals that are shipping our jobs overseas, that just leaned on us a few months ago for the
we've got to say, you cannot rob the people of detroit of the pension. they worked hard for these pensions. and let me tell you something, if we stand by what they take the detroit pension they will be taking our pensions. so don't think it will happen to us. if they can set a precedent, they will do it to us again. let me just tell you this. inequality is a scourge on our society. and yes, we're talking about low-wage workers making $7.25 an hour. we've got to do something about it. but...
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it's like they want us to be detroit. we didn't vote for him. he got no votes from the state, thank you, oklahoma. but we are paying for it. and he doesn't end run around everybody. what can we do to get oklahomans working, to get these things implemented without him sitting up there and saying, this is what you're going to do, instead of the people that own this country telling them? [applause] >> you know, i would kill you don't blame it all on obama because they were uncontrolled bureaucracies under george bush. i expense them, and he did, too. he goes back to the thing we kind of started out with, is the federal government is out of control. but it's been predicted by all the historians that our republic will fail. so the question is how do we cheat history? how do we go back? how do we really base -- we embrace the things that made america great. as i said earlier i think we have to get in charge. i've been working for nine years to try to make a big difference. i have made a small difference, not a bi big difference. by me, i've worked eve
it's like they want us to be detroit. we didn't vote for him. he got no votes from the state, thank you, oklahoma. but we are paying for it. and he doesn't end run around everybody. what can we do to get oklahomans working, to get these things implemented without him sitting up there and saying, this is what you're going to do, instead of the people that own this country telling them? [applause] >> you know, i would kill you don't blame it all on obama because they were uncontrolled...
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. >> let's go to our student line, nicole is in detroit. caller: i am currently a student at wayne state university. the question is is college worth the cost. right now, i feel it is not worth the cost. we are facing a situation where i -- i may not be able to pay for classes in the fall. not even over an academic issue, but over the contract i have with housing. i might be kicked out of school this semester. >> you have a conflict with what? caller: with the housing right now. >> is that because it is too expensive or there are too many people in the housing unit? caller: detroit just filed for bankruptcy. they are trying to increase my tuition. housing is too much. >> nicole, thank you for calling in and sharing your story. this was the subject of an article earlier this week, and they pulled him out about student loans. "more students rely than ever on federal student loans aid." she covered today's speech by president obama and we spoke to her earlier in the afternoon for her thoughts. what new ground did the president break in calls f
. >> let's go to our student line, nicole is in detroit. caller: i am currently a student at wayne state university. the question is is college worth the cost. right now, i feel it is not worth the cost. we are facing a situation where i -- i may not be able to pay for classes in the fall. not even over an academic issue, but over the contract i have with housing. i might be kicked out of school this semester. >> you have a conflict with what? caller: with the housing right now....
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the nation of islam and other kinds of groups or had participated in some way in different riots like detroit riots somehow made their way to the hospital, and they were diagnosed with mental illness. and so, you know, that's not a huge surprise when we think about the ways that politics and the diagnosis of mental illness have gone together in this country. but i would say that the main myths that i look at, one i've already kind of suggested, is that this increased rate of schizophrenia was somehow the result of something to do with biology or genetics. of course, a lot of people were arguing that at the time. but what i found was that it was almost entirely a social phenomenon that was linked to a series of changes, and the two i'll just put forward, one was that people -- there was a lot of anxiety about the political moment, and people really were linking political protests at the time to insanity in ways that started to make sense to people. and the second was that the diagnosis of schizophrenia had changed in 1968, and the official diagnosis all of a sudden said anger, hostility and pr
the nation of islam and other kinds of groups or had participated in some way in different riots like detroit riots somehow made their way to the hospital, and they were diagnosed with mental illness. and so, you know, that's not a huge surprise when we think about the ways that politics and the diagnosis of mental illness have gone together in this country. but i would say that the main myths that i look at, one i've already kind of suggested, is that this increased rate of schizophrenia was...
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>> detroit where you have this -- you have had this big field of candidates. just two contenders for a job that is -- you think it is very important right now. ultimately the election itself may be less important than what happens after. germany how much power the mayor will have when there is an emergency manager with sweeping authority for turning around. and houston, where a democratic mayor is running for a third term. a nonpartisan alexian but essentially a republican opponent. when she was elected it became the largest american city. so she's likely to win another term. national politics. it's worth keeping an eye on. >> the cover politics and policy in this era of budget deficits and tightening budgets here in washington. what can mayors expect from washington if anything when it comes to infrastructure, the nuts and bolts the mayor's need to provide to their respective cities? >> you talk to mayors out in the country and at party conventions. the u.s. conference of mayors meeting in d.c. really set up with just how little support they get from washingt
>> detroit where you have this -- you have had this big field of candidates. just two contenders for a job that is -- you think it is very important right now. ultimately the election itself may be less important than what happens after. germany how much power the mayor will have when there is an emergency manager with sweeping authority for turning around. and houston, where a democratic mayor is running for a third term. a nonpartisan alexian but essentially a republican opponent. when...
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eddy, i just mentioned he was the kid from detroit who was drafted. he had the virtue of writing to his wife every day while he was in the service. he ended up being sent to the 28th infantry division, deserted out immediately. was hanging out with the canada unit for awhile. he was court marble -- marbled. he refused the offer to basically have the sentence set aside if he would go back to combat. he said i'll desert again. his appeal came to eisenhower in 19 e at the darkest time. eisenhower was not in a forgiving mood. unfortunately for him, eisenhower affirmed the death sentence, and eisenhower said that his unit, the 28th division was to carry out the execution. i described how he is transported by mp, military policeman, were the 28th division was and firing squad was set up. i think he believed to the very end that he was going to be -- the sentence would be commuted. it was not. they shot him dead. the division commander was a guy named norm who was at omaha beach. the the worse of all the battle. he was in the battle of the bulge when shot to
eddy, i just mentioned he was the kid from detroit who was drafted. he had the virtue of writing to his wife every day while he was in the service. he ended up being sent to the 28th infantry division, deserted out immediately. was hanging out with the canada unit for awhile. he was court marble -- marbled. he refused the offer to basically have the sentence set aside if he would go back to combat. he said i'll desert again. his appeal came to eisenhower in 19 e at the darkest time. eisenhower...